Psychiatric Contours: New African Histories of Madness

Cover
Contents
List of Figures
Preface
Introduction: Madness, the Psychopolitical, and the Vernacular: Rethinking Psychiatric Histories
Part I: Writing, Biography, and thePsychopolitics of Decolonization
	1. Archives of False Prophets: Inventing the Futurein a West African Psychiatric Hospital
	2. Missionary Anxieties,Psychopathology, and Decolonization: A Biographical Approach
	3. Mr. Tanka and Voices: A Cameroonian Patient Writing about Schizophrenia
Part II: Patient Words Meet Diagnostic Categories
	4. Delirious Words and Social Ambition in French
Colonial Madagascar
	5. Sickness and Symptoms as Cultural Capacities
in Colonial Ideology
	6. Rethinking Brain Fag Syndrome: Students, Symptoms, and a Late Colonial Survey in Nigeria
Part: III Practices and Long Durations
	7. Casting out Anger: Stress, Possession, and the Everyday in Taita, Kenya
	8. The Universal, the Particular,and Vernacular Resistancein Colonial Algeria
Part: IV Unexpected Archives and Ethnographic Investigations
	9. Precarious Families, “Danger,” and Psychiatric Internment in 1960s Dakar: An Archive of Kin Letters
	10. Lorry Dreams and Slave Ship Disintegrations: Motion, Madness, and Incongruent Planes in History
Coda: On the Importance of Suffering
Contributors
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